Regarding Steven Johns' Aug. 13 letter,
"Ignore circumcision scare": Johns claims that he was not traumatized by his own
circumcision. I think Johns is simply trying to rationalize what he doesn't
understand.
I don't remember my own circumcision, either.
I was circumcised at an early age. How easy it would be for me to agree with
Johns that I was not traumatized by the event.
My mother dropped me down a flight of stairs
when I was less than a year old and broke three of my ribs. I have no memory of that
event, either.
Would Johns say that dropping a baby down a
flight of stairs and breaking a few bones has no traumatizing effect on the child and
should therefore be inflicted on everyone at birth?
Circumcision is child abuse, plain and simple.